I want to ask you about your republican opponent in the upcoming Arizona senate
election.
He says, democrats want to quote, change the demographics of the country.
He has openly embraced donald trump's election lies.
He has the support of a lot of openly racist, notorious individuals.
Your, the Arizona republican nominee for
governor says the president biden isn't a legitimate president.
He, she says she wants her Democratic opponent in jail,
the Republican nominee for secretary of state in Arizona.
He's a self proclaimed member of the oath keepers.
Jake tapper is setting up what I would argue is a layup for Democratic Senator.
Mark kelly here are all these incredibly questionable,
problematic figures within the Republican Party.
What do you do about that?
What are your feelings about that?
How do you move forward of course,
because cable news is obsessed with this in a bipartisan manner.
And Mark kelly just can't stop himself from talking about his love
affair with his political opponents.
Let's take a look at the rest of that video.
You hold the seat once filled by john McCain who was a conservative, but
he did work across the aisle.
He was very critical of voices like the ones I just mentioned not them
specifically, but that kind of what he would call looney tunes.
What's happened to the Arizona republican party?
Well, you know, unfortunately, I think right now that the folks you mentioned
have some really dangerous ideas and they're not consistent with most,
most arizonans, even most republicans in Arizona.
So, you know, I'm hoping we can move away from that.
You know, my republican colleagues that I talked to in the United States Senate.
You know, I mean, these are good, good people, you know,
by and large who are working really hard and
they don't need those dangerous ideas in the United States Senate,
republicans, really good people, including republicans in the great
state of Arizona, that just gave Kerry Lake a win in the Republican
primary in the gubernatorial race, Kerry Lake a trump lackey.
Someone who repeats lies about the election allegedly being stolen from
donald trump, but no jake.
I mean, all of those questionable figures that were mentioned by jake tapper and
the very big beginning of that interview or that clip, I should say, I mean,
it's just a fringe, it's just a fringe element of the Republican Party.
And honestly, I think that kind of thinking, especially by a member of
the democratic establishment is so incredibly foolish, naive and delusional.
Yeah, it's the attitude of a complete loser.
And, but I'm gonna give you an excuse for kelly in a second.
If you're a Democratic apologist, don't get excited.
It's gonna get worse.
So first off, that was the biggest softball I've ever seen.
And so if you can't hit that out of the park,
you suck at this, Hey, your opponents
are basically bills above and Shatin, right?
And by the way, they kinda are right.
They're not kind of, they really like, they're as bad as he is.
His actual physical literal opponent is blake masters blake
Masters has praised the idea of not being a democracy.
Look, we had courtesy our win.
Who?
Blake Masters quotes regularly on the conversation just there today.
Go check it out.
We'll put the link down below to the long interview that I had with him.
He says, yeah, yeah, I think a dictator is the right way to go.
And whether you want to connect that to blake masters or not, you can read their
quotes and see if that's you feel comfortable or uncomfortable with that.
But it's not like jake tapper is telling you that somebody is extreme when they're
not extreme.
And instead of going goddamn right, you're right, jake Mark kelly comes in and goes,
I mean, my beloved republican friends, I love them so much, I'd love to kiss their
ass on national television, You're running against them, you knucklehead!
Okay, so look, what's my excuse for kelly.
Like cops are taught cowardice.
They don't come in as cowards.
That would be ridiculous.
They're just relatively random collection of people and
their training says, don't ever take any risks.
Okay, just and it's better that somebody else dies,
then you get a, you know, a hangnail.
And for Democratic politicians, the leadership teaches them how to be losers.
So they bring in consultants and they go, now remember when you're
running against a republican, You should tell the voters how great republicans are.
They're taught to be the dumbest biggest losers in America by people like nancy,
Pelosi chuck, schumer, joe biden.
These morons have been doing it for decades and
they're losing very winnable races.
Because you see the quote, what do you say?
My republican colleagues are quote good people working really hard.
Why would you give them an ad when you're on tv you just want to say vote for us,
democrats, not for the other guys.
It's not that complicated.
There's no way that senator kelly is that dumb?
Someone has to teach you to be that dumb.
So congrats democratic leadership.
I mean I just think that this system inspires the type of statement that
you heard from kelly because at the end of the day, I mean are we really
gonna pretend like the republican party was better prior to the trump era?
I mean their bigotry and
racism was certainly a little less explicit and overt.
But at the end of the day the policies that they were championing what they
wanted to do with this country, how they wanted to dwindle down what's left of
our social safety net to essentially nonexistence all of that existed
before trump their willingness to strip women and members of the L.
G.
B. T.
Q. Community of their rights still existed.
Their willingness to start preemptive wars that lasted for decades existed
prior to donald trump their unwillingness to do a damn thing about gun control
in this country, which he should care about considering how it affected his
family personally, that all still existed prior to trump coming into office.
So pretending like the republican party is just a unique Brand of awful today or
only a certain portion of the Republican Party is a unique brand of awful today,
I think is ridiculous.
And again, delusional.
But it's also true that these Republicans do serve,
especially in the Senate as a convenient excuse for
Democrats being unable to do a damn thing when they're in power.
Right, what can we do?
We needed 10 Republicans to vote along with us for this legislation.
What could we do? What could we do?
Well, did you fight for it?
You do away with the legislative filibuster?
So you didn't need a single republican?
I mean, they love the convenient excuses.
Final thing I'll say you mentioned people like chuck, schumer and nancy Pelosi and
you're right jink, you're right about some of the lessons that we
learned from people like Pelosi, for instance.
And let me remind you of what Pelosi loves to say repeatedly.
I've also said that Republican Party, which country needs a strong
Republican Party made great contributions to our country.
I say this to republicans all the time.
The country needs a strong Republican party,
not one that has been hijacked as a cult.
I think our country needs a strong Republican party.
It's very important democrats love a strong Republican Party.
It's very important now to put it in fuller context.
Of course, Pelosi is trying to make the argument that we need a strong
Republican party that slaps down the trump era of Republicanism.
But what she fails to understand is that the trump brand is
the Republican Party today?
Okay.
It's that's who they are trump.
Gave them permission to be far more honest about who they are.
And even before then they were awful.
Before then.
What great contributions?
What, like where's the follow up to that?
What great contributions And you know what?
We need this country doesn't need a strong Republican Party.
We have one that's already, way, way, way over the top.
No, we need a strong Democratic Party to fight against them.
It said these losers come in there and
kiss Republican ass when they're supposed to be the head of the Democratic Party.
I am so sick of them going, my republican friends, I love them so much.
Why don't you go make out in a corner.
Ok, take it somewhere else.
You guys are disgusting.
You know, I mean to your point, anna for God's sake,
Mark kelly's wife is Gabby Giffords.
She was a Democratic congresswoman who was shot in the head and by the way,
your beloved republican colleagues all voted not the new ones.
The extreme right way.
No, the ones you got You just praise.
They all voted to make sure that there would be no consequences,
that there would be no restricts on restrictions on gun control.
So that could happen again and again and again and yet
you still kiss their ass now that these democrats, the establishment democrats
are completely hopeless because they're corrupt with republicans.
They totally agree on economic issues, but our press is a bunch of goddamn liars and
they won't ever say the thing that is obvious.
Hey, wait a minute you guys vote the same way on economic issues all the time.
So yeah, maybe you might disagree on social issues, but isn't it true?
And and look at how they just fetishize bipartisanship, isn't it true that you
guys actually agree on corporate pork when it comes to every industry infrastructure,
semiconductors, tax cuts for corporations on and on and on and they all pass easily.
But tapper would never ask that because Zapper loves it when they're bipartisan.
And I think about how stupid that is.
You know, in favor of bipartisanship, why as a concept?
Well, what if one side is a reasonable party and the other side is nazis,
would you still be in favor of bipartisanship?
Yeah, of course, bipartisanship is always good.
No, it isn't use your brain for half a second.
No, that's why we're losing the republicans because these awful corrupt
morons are in charge of the Democratic Party and corporate media and
one last thing to ana's point, You idiot elitist.
It's not just extreme right wing, that's such a tiny minority.
No, no, it's the entire Republican Party.
They just put blake masters as your opponent.
He doesn't even believe in democracy.
How stupid are you that you kiss their ass anyway and say, don't worry,
republicans are awesome.
Just a tiny little fringe group.
Don't worry. Why are you making excuses for them,
pathetic, pathetic carry links in Arizona.
And yet you still say republicans are generally wonderful, but
a tiny little exception for an extreme right wing.
No, they're all voting for them.
You morons, You're gonna get us all, you're gonna lose democracy on your watch.
Exactly, idiot senators like that.